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11/7/2012 at 7:58am
Location: Rushden Northants
Outfit: Mercedes 614D Conversion
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We get most parts from Marshalls at Bedford, we get next day van delivery and trade discount. Many parts can actually be cheaper from a dealer than buying from ebay.
Otherwise, any of the 2nd tier suppliers, Paddocks, LRSeries, John Craddock etc.
They mostly offer genuine OR pattern parts, which to be fair is not a bad deal as you have a choice then of cheap and cheerful or full retail Land Rover.
If you're only paying £12 for something that is £80 from Land Rover, where's the problem?
One tip: DON'T buy gasket sets from any of the 2nd Tier suppliers, go to a motor factors and get a Victor Reintz gasket set. They are not cheap, but much better quality and fit than what comes from Britpart, or Sh*tpart as our boys call them.
We bought 2 gasket sets from Island4X4 recently, they are sourced through Britpart probably, but the head gaskets were not marked for 'Top' and the valve stem seals were wrong. I couldn't get a response out of the vendor over the matter, so we binned the gasket sets and bought Reintz instead, much better quality and everything fitted.
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12/7/2012 at 8:46am
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As I said, Phil, I have had no issues with any of the non-genuine parts I have bought, the most critical of which were the new water pump and thermostat we put in when we fitted a short engine in 2009. They have done 3 years/48k miles.
The other thing to remember is that most of these parts are not made by Land Rover anyway, Valeo make a lot of the car electronics, Bosch do the engine management, Dayco make the aux drive belt, tensioner and idlers and so on.
Nobody is going to set up a production line for Land Rover V8 water pumps just for the aftermarket business, and there are plenty of known instances of Land Rover supplying parts in Britpart packets, so there is every reason to believe that most aftermarket OEM parts originate in the same factories as genuine LR stuff.
The only exceptions to most of this are things like MAF sensors, which are cheaper from Land Rover than some ebay vendors, and brake calipers and cylinders. I'd always buy genuine.
Regarding the universal joints, Chinese production quality is now recognised as being as good as western manufacturers, especially the very large OEM suppliers who are supplying the motor companies in the USA and Europe direct.
Peter
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